The Elven Star Interpretations

Mystery 6: Softening into Spiritual Awareness

Arrival in this world as a baby is quite shocking for the soul. No amount of forewarning could educate spirit to know what it will feel like to descend into its opposing principle. Materiality is as ardently keen to contain and deny spirit as is spirit to inspire and raise up matter. Having no strength or comprehension, the baby’s position is very vulnerable so its inner imperative is to secure itself from harm and find a place to be. This is thrusting.​The soul has its own purpose for incarnating and this is not fear-based at all. It is not interested in security but more accepting, easy and naive, not at all thrusting. In fact the less we push and the more we observe and respond, the closer we can tune into the soul.

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Primary Word: Sorry

Do you make amends if you cause harm?In some spiritual groups, on camps etc, we can observe the process called ‘karma yoga’, which raises the concept of chores to a new level. By doing work in the spirit of sacred service, the effect is to heal ourselves of issues that trouble us. This is the way to understand making amends. It is not done simply to justly compensate the other. It is done to repair the damage in ourselves that is evidenced by our insensitivity to others. When we do the right thing by others, we feel good on a soul level. It’s worth it; benefit outweighs cost by a dimension.

Are you relatively free of guilt?This question is also profoundly correlated with happiness. From a truly spiritual perspective, guilt is always wrong – and blame too. So whatever we do that is motivated by guilt or blame will always lead towards an unsatisfactory result. We need to avoid that behaviour, whatever the cost, and to let go of guilt – or our chances of joy are very significantly diminished.

Are you a person who can forgive and forget?We all do what we think is right. If we think that someone is doing something wrong then it’s just because their model of the world is different to ours. It explains all the friction and resultant conflict. Forgiveness is more than excusing someone’s bad behaviour; it is much more. Forgiveness is a state of grace that enables a person to release resentment and be fully responsible for everything that they experience in life. It heals the poison of blame and guilt.

This word is so often said with a heavy voice or launched at another person like an accusing missile: ‘it’s your responsibility!’, yet its origins clearly indicate the ability to respond. If a doctor is present at a medical emergency then they have the responsibility to deal with it simply because they can. Undoubtedly it is suggestive of emotional maturity and adult attitudes.

As responsible adults we will come to see upon reflection that much of what has disturbed the peace could have been better handled by us. To some extent we are at fault if we had the ability to respond to a situation better than we did. To make this right and correct the error we need to make amends.

Often a word that seems to apply to two different meanings in fact reveals by artful ambiguity that the meanings are not really different at all but together suggestive of a hidden truth. This word reflection is used to describe what we see physically when we look at a special piece of glass, and also what we perceive mentally through contemplation of events and feelings. These are disconnected activities – and yet when unified by their shared name they point to one of life’s most beautiful secrets.

We are each of us bound up by our very physicality and all of our other attachments, yet the eternal truth of who we are cannot be permanently constrained. The eternal self is often called soul, and is made of fiery, expressive spirit whose essence-nature is absolute freedom. Before deciding to incarnate, soul had little or no comprehension of how it might feel to be encased in clay; it had no way to understand what it would be like to live in a world run by the fearful and violent.

What is Elven Star?

It is a mystical / magical study of the resonance of number 7, using Sufi philosophy and Sabian Symbols to gain access to hidden and subtle aspects of the self. For their work in bringing Sabian wisdom into form, Wheeler, Jones and Rudhyar are to be acknowledged. The 7 Words System is an application of the tradition teachings of Sufism known as the 7 Planes of Consciousness. Trainings may become available - please let me know if you are interested.​James

To access the Elven Star teachings:1) Study each of your 7 Elven Star Sabian Symbols repeatedly and deeply until your familiarity with their wisdom goes beyond the surface level. 2) By gaining insight into the 7 Words System, find your own understanding of what is taught with these interpretation pages as Mystery 1, Mystery 2 and so on.3) Through meditation and contemplation, find a way to assimilate all of the 7 mysteries into a composite awareness of an aspect of yourself that you hold to be the best, the highest, the most soul-expressive and inspiring.4) Affirm your willingness and intention to change your life in some way in order to reflect your expanded sense of self. If you have not the motivation to do so, then you have not completed this work.​

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